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June
5th, 2011 The group sends away Hui, Lauren, Qian and Leo with a beach party at Marina Del Ray. Xinkai came back
to get some free BBQ after showing off his rusty basketball skills. Good luck to all the alumni and keep in
touch! December
3rd, 2010 The group says goodbye to Dr. Zhen Gu. Zhen will begin his postdoc training at
Prof. Bob Langer’s lab at MIT. Good
luck Cathy and Zhen! We will miss you! August
6th, 2010 Finished the SIM Meeting at SF and the
PKS-NRPS Meeting at Tahoe Prof. Tang was awarded the Society for
Industrial Microbiology Young Investigator award. Lauren gave a great lecture in the student
oral session. Even better, she was
awarded the best poster award in the Natural Products Poster Session! Yanran, KJ and Yit Heng also gave great
posters at the meeting. Pictures of the meeting will come soon! Wei delivered an insightful lecture on
fungal PKS-NRPS systems at Lake Tahoe.
August
1st, 2010 Zhen Gu’s paper:
“Enzyme-Assisted Photolithography for Spatial Functionalization of
Hydrogels.” Lab on Chip 2010, 10,
1946-1951. was
featured on the cover of August issue of Lab on a Chip! Congratulations! Zhen also received excellent news of
postdoc offer from MIT, congratulations again! May
27th, 2010 A good day for much good news! Prof Tang received the official statement
that he has been promoted to full professor. Both Lauren and Hui received the UCLA
Dissertation Year Fellowship! Yit Heng’s paper finally appeared in Chemistry and Biology! And it’s only 10 AM! May
17th, 2010 We
are moving!! To the 7th
floor at last! May
15th, 2010 Prof. Tang receives the Society of Industrial
Microbiology Young Investigator Award. October
23rd, 2009 Suzanne Ma’s paper on LovB reconstitution
appears in Science. Link June,
2009 Prof. Tang received the Allan P. Colburn
Award for Excellence in Publications at the 2009 Annual AIChE Meeting in
Nashville. The Allan P. Colburn Award
for Excellence in Publications by Young Member of the Institute is presented
to a member of AIChE for significant contributions to chemical engineering
through publications. May
30th, 2009: The group says goodbye to Wenjun Zhang and
Suzanne Ma! The first two Ph.D. students to graduate from the lab.
Wenjun will be a postdoctoral scholar at Harvard Medical School with Prof.
Chris Walsh, and starting 2011, will be an assistant professor at the
Chemical Engineering Department at University of California, Berkeley. Suzanne will pursue interests in Industrial
Biotechnology. Good luck to both Suzanne and Wenjun! We will miss you! April
9th, 2009: First year graduate student Anuradha Biswas
received the NSF graduate fellowship.
Congratulations! February
17th, 2009: Prof. Tang received the 2009 Alfred P.
Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship (Link). December
30th, 2008 In a study published in the December 30th
issue of Proceedings of National
Academy of Sciences U. S. A.,
the Tang group engineered Escherichia
coli to synthesize a family of compounds that consists of frontline
antibiotics and anticancer drugs. November
21, 2008: The Tang group
has 5 oral and 2 poster presentations at 2008 AIChE Meeting (Link). July 1,
2008: Prof. Tang has been promoted to Associate
Professor at UCLA CBE Department. May
1, 2008: Prof. Tang was
awarded the Camile Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award November
1st 2007: Prof. Tang was awarded the 2006
Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering (PECASE). Established in 1996, PECASE represents the
highest honor that any young scientist or engineer can receive in the United
States. UCLA School of Engineering News
Release National Science Foundation News
Release October
20th 2007: Prof. Tang was awarded the 2007 David and
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